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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

[through intercom, with British accent] “Ms. Jones, could you come in here, please?”- door opens and closes -“Yes, Mr. Reynaldo?”“Ms. Jones, about that cake in the conference room…”“Yes, sir?”“I’m not sure it’s entirely appropriate for the board meeting.”“I did make sure it said ‘Mr. Reynaldo’ on it, and not ‘Nigel’, sir.”“Yes. No, I do appreciate that. But, ah, about the photo on it…”“Don’t you like it, sir?”

(Why? Three reasons: because I doubt I’ll ever find a cake with a dead parrot on it, I think “Nigel Reynaldo” would be the awesomest name ever, and for my new friend Anthony, of “Oh, you’re British? I thought you were just gay” fame.)

Your writing style cracks me up! I know I can always count on you to lighten my day. It's just so amazing to me what people put on cakes. I had no idea there was a whole genre of bad cakes. Here's a toast to bad cake decorators everywhere: May you live long and prosper so the rest of us can laugh at your expense.

i'm assuming that the birthday boy has the last name Reynaldo and they connected that with Cristiano Renaldo, the soccer player pictured.

i'm not going to attack you like 'j', as i'm also an american who doesn't give a shit about soccer, but maybe this background info will help you understand the cake a little more (never thought i'd 'help someone understand a cake' before).

Given what looks like a partially healed scar on the side of the guy on the cake I had assumed that he was the victim of one of those all-too-frequent Motel room kidney removals. I guess being a reviled international football star is close enough.

I would almost be offended by the "Brits are gay" remark if:1) your blog hadn't already reduced me to tears of laughter on more than many occassions2) I didn't totally love you because you reference Monty Python, and not to mention Douglas Adams (both of which are English, of course)3) I didn't also think that the English accent is pretty darn gay.

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